At the kernel summit, Linus made it quite clear that he wants almost all changes from sub-system trees (like ACPI) in the beginning of the 2-week merge window -- preferably the 1st day. He wants no-function-change cleanups to happen in the merge window too, though I got the impression that later in the merge window was acceptable for those, unless your name is Andrew Morton who can push those in rc2. After rc1 is declared, we should be pushing upstream nothing but bug fixes -- with the focus on regression bug fixes. This means that if you want to push any feature-related patches in 2.6.24, I basically need them in my test tree now -- 2.6.23-rc6. thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html